WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 19:
From left, Thomas Pickering, retired U.S. ambassador and Chairman of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board, Admiral Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current Vice-Chairman of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board, Mark Sullivan, former director of the U.S. Secret Service, and Todd Keil, Former Asst. Secretary for Infrastructure Protection with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, testify
during a House Oversight Committee hearing entitled 'Reviews of the Benghazi Attack and Unanswered Questions,' in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, September 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is continuing to lead the GOP investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)File photo of Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) — One Republican congressman warns that President Barack Obama’s recent comments about marijuana could contribute to more adolescents using the drug.

Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., made the comment during a House Oversight Committee Government Operations subpanel hearing about marijuana.

“Given the recent statements … the president may, in fact, be a major contributor now to some of the declines we see in the perception of risk,” Mica, chairman of the subpanel, said, according to CBS News. “We’re going from ‘Just say no,’ to ‘I didn’t inhale,’ now it’s ‘Just say maybe.’”

Obama recently said in an interview with The New Yorker magazine that pot is not more dangerous than alcohol.

“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama said.

“We have the most schizophrenic policy I have ever seen,” Mica stated.

Seventeen states have some form of marijuana decriminalization. Some, including New York, maintain criminal penalties for public smoking, while others allow police to arrest people who don’t produce identification when ticketed. Colorado and Washington state have gone further by legalizing the sale and possession of pot. Legalization advocates in the nation’s capital are trying to put the issue before voters in a ballot initiative this fall.